by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Major in New Mexico” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Music is the 43rd most popular major in the country with 25,860 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , music graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $27,123 and had an average of $27,532 in loans still to pay off.
Across New Mexico, there were 81 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,128 and $38,240 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,709 and $37,223 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Major in New Mexico” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in music. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in music.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Major in New Mexico”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Major in New Mexico. This large school is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and it awarded 21 masters’s music degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Major in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Las Cruces, New Mexico that handed out 5 masters’s music degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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